Food to assist with birth

Sorry if this has been posted before but I'm interested to know of any food etc that is supposed to assist with labour/birth/post birth.

ive read that eating dates in the last month can assist with a speedy labour, raspberry leaf tea can help with inducing baby, eating dried apricots after the baby is born can assist with softening stools. Is there anything else I should know about/give it a try?

As above, raspberry leaf is to tone uterus not induce. I took it in capsule form and also too evening primrose oil capsules for the same thing (helps uterus/cervix or something I can't remember)
was actually recommended by midwife so I'll start again at 36 weeks this time

My advise: Go easy on the lentils;) Not that I believe it brought on labour for me but my husband made three curries (after a friend had an abundancy of eggplants and beans in the garden). All three contained some form of pulses (lentils etc). My waters happened to break that night and let's say my entire labour the next day I could not distinguish between contractions and gas pain. An awful combination and quite embarrassing. I spend most of my pre-birth phase in the hospital room between the toilet and the gym ball.

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